spray on fabric paint/dye for TVR faded carpets?

[CleG]

Some of my carpets have faded in the sun.
Has anyone else had this happen to them. If so have you tried a spray/dye etc and did it work?

Cheers

[IPAddis]

Someone else has successfully managed to re-dye their carpets using a blend of black and blue dyes picked up from IIRC an artists shop. I am going to try the same feat so if you find a suitable dye, please let me know.

[CleG]

Cheers, I thought about the dye route but I was a bit worried that some are not set until washed ... I imagined lots of running blue dye all over the interior when it got wet

I have had a good look on the net for sprays .. but nothing yet, I will keep looking.

[Twerlie]

Mine has faded too. Let me know if ya find anything,
Thanks

[ATG]

quote:
Mine has faded too. Let me know if ya find anything,
Thanks

ditto

[stevied]

I have a 96 Chimaera with dark blue carpets that have gone a nasty shade of yellow.

Spoke to a chap at Exeter TVR, and this is quite common with blue carpets.
They have successfully used a local company to them called Plastic Surgeon who 'spray' dye in to bring back the colour.
Plastic Surgeon are on 01392 206020 and are at Marsh Barton Industrial Estate nr Exeter.

They gave me a guide price of approx £100 and need the car for a day.

Living in Kent not got around to getting this done yet. Not been able to find anyone else who does this either.

Hope this helps, and if anyone uses them let me know how it goes.

[RaspberryCerbera]

Bit unrelated ... but I recently had a company called 'Bradleys' (01728 745200) mix up some spray cans of leather paint to touch up my slightly worn Cerbera seats / steering wheel.
I would recommend this to anyone, the colour match was 100% perfect, sprayed on (it seems to partially absorb into the leather) & the inside now looks like new.
If anyone has a Cerbera with 'Butterscotch' leather they now have a code for it.

Regards
Dave

[simpo one]

'They gave me a guide price of approx £100 and need the car for a day.'

If it's footwell carpets, you can get brand new ones for less than that.... eg Autostyle. Or do you mean the parcel shelf one?

[stevied]

In mine the footwell ones are fine. Basically everything else - parcel shelf, doors, transmission tunnel all yellowed.
I think the footwell ones are a different type of carpet ?

Sods Law in action - the 2 lift out carpets are fine (footwells), but everything that is glued in has gone nasty.